--- Forwarded Message from Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6171.3 firewire necessary for DV camera? (!)
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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If you do have Firewire capabilities, an alternative
way to get analog input (audio or video) into your
computer is to buy a device like the Sony Media
Converter.  You plug the cables from the analog
sources into the converter, which then sends a signal
out to your computer's Firewire port.  This is how our
multimedia development stations are set up and it
works beautifully.  The only problem is that some
software programs (such as RealProducer Plus) do not
work with Firewire input.  But the major audio and
video editing programs such as SoundForge, Edit DV,
Premiere, etc. all accept Firewire input.

Samantha Earp
Duke University

--- LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- Forwarded Message from Derek Roff
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> >Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:32:03 -0600
> >From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International
> Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: #6171 firewire necessary for DV
> camera?
> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 
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> If you want to bring digital video information
> directly into the 
> computer for editing, FireWire (officially,
> IEEE-1394) is the only 
> affordable option.  Adding a FireWire card to your
> computer costs 
> around $100 (MacWarehouse lists one at $79.95).
> 
> If you want to bring analog video information into
> the computer, then 
> you need a card in your computer which will accept
> analog video, and 
> convert it to digital.  Your digital camcorder will
> have analog video 
> output.  Your computer will probably _not_ have
> analog video inputs, 
> unless it is a mid-nineties model Mac or you
> previously purchased and 
> installed a video digitizing card in your computer. 
>  A low-end video 
> digitizing card will cost at least $100 (the
> cheapest that I see in 
> MacWarehouse is $159.95).
> 
> As you can imagine, the quality lost in converting
> digital video to 
> analog in the camcorder, and then converting it back
> to digital in 
> the computer is significant.  Since the cost of
> adding FireWire is so 
> low, and the quality and ease of use is so much
> higher than analog, I 
> would go with FireWire every time.
> 
> Derek
> 

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